From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Wallon-A Aliases: W32/Wallon.worm Type: Win32 worm Date: 12 May 2004 A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated into the June 2004 (3.82) release of Sophos Anti-Virus. Customers using Enterprise Manager, PureMessage and any of the Sophos small business solutions will be automatically protected at their next scheduled update. Sophos has received several reports of this worm from the wild. Note: Sophos has been detecting W32/Wallon-A since 23:08 GMT on 11 May 2004 and has issued this updated IDE to improve detection of W32/Wallon-A and add detection for W32/Wallon-B, W32/Wallon-C, Troj/Psyme-V, Troj/StartPa-HF and Troj/Dloader-JK Information about W32/Wallon-A can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32wallona.html Description W32/Wallon-A is an email worm. The worm sends mail containing a deceptive link. The link appears to direct the user to drs.yahoo.com/<user's domain>/NEWS but in fact points to a location on another website. The website that the link directs the user to uses Trojan downloaders and exploits to download and run a copy of the worm. The Trojans used and installed during the infection process are: Troj/Psyme-V, Troj/StartPa-HF, Troj/Dloader-JK and Dial/Top69-A. Recovery Please follow the instructions for removing worms. This IDE file also includes detection for: W32/Wallon-B http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32wallonb.html W32/Wallon-C http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32wallonc.html Troj/Psyme-V http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojpsymev.html Troj/StartPa-HF http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojstartpahf.html Troj/Dloader-JK http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloaderjk.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/wallon-a.ide Download all the IDE files available for the current version of Sophos Anti-Virus in a single compressed file. The file is available in two formats: Zip file: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.zip Self-extracting file: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe Read about how to use IDE files at http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/using.html *********** MIKE"S REPLY SEPARATOR *********** Mike ~ It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews see a sample on my web page http://www3.telus.net/mikebike <mikeswhatsnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/worm_removal.htm See my Anti-Virus pages http://virusinfo.hackfix.org/index <virusinfo-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> A Technical Support Alliance and OWTA Charter Member
